Archaeology of Animals Anthro/ES 353, Section 001C Syllabus and Course Schedule Spring Semester 2021 Credits: Classroom: Lectures: e-mail: 3 Swart Hall 13 M/W 1:50 – 3:20 PM friea@uwosh.edu Dr. Adrienne Frie Pronouns: Office: Office Hours: she, her, hers Harrington Hall 303 TBD Catalog Description What do animals mean to us? What did they mean to people in the past? Why do we kill and eat them, but also worship and love them? This course explores human-animal relationships thematically from an archaeological perspective. The relationships evidenced in the archaeological record will be oriented by broader works from the field of human-animal studies to assess the variable ways that humans may engage with animals, and how animals are instrumental in framing human subjectivities. Course Description What do animals mean to us? What did they mean to people in the past? Why do we kill and eat them, but also worship and love them? This course explores human-animal relationships thematically from an archaeological perspective. We will address topics such as animals as food, labor, and pets, and animals in myth and religion. The case studies will be archaeological, using data such as visual culture depicting animals and material culture related to animal husbandry, as well as faunal remains, to determine how people in the past thought about and interacted with animals. In certain cases, we will also interrogate the divide between real and ideal relationships with animals by juxtaposing archaeological and textual sources. Finally, we will survey how animals themselves or cultural ideas about animals can be mobilized to demonstrate inclusivity or exclusivity, and either exalt or marginalize associated groups of people. The relationships evidenced in the archaeological record will be oriented by broader works from the field of human-animal studies to assess the variable ways that humans may engage with animals, and how animals are instrumental in framing human subjectivities. Student Learning Outcomes • Understand the variability of past human-animal relationships, from hunting to husbandry, ritual, religion, symbolism, and beyond. 1 • • • • • • Explore how human-animal relations have been studied from an archaeological perspective and be able to situate this work with reference to the interdisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies. Comprehend and critically assess the different theoretical approaches to human-animal studies, and their potential practical applications to archaeological contexts. Students will be able to elucidate the key points of a complex article or research work in human-animal studies, and to critique the theoretical framework, methodology, and findings of that study. Students will be able to access and assess a complex literature based on a specific topic, and to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of individual sources for that topic. Students will develop research frameworks to approach past human-animal relationships utilizing archaeological evidence. Students will be able to effectively present research to professional and lay audiences. Required Readings • Our required textbook is available open access, online on the library website and does not need to be purchased. You can use the link below for access o • • Russell, Nerissa (2012) Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://uwi-primoalma- prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/dvbl1i/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks _9781139179454 Readings and other resources will be posted on Canvas. These are listed under your weekly assignments. While you are not graded on the readings, if I find that people are frequently not doing their reading, I reserve the right to add reading quizzes to the course grade. Assessments • • • • Course readings: Please complete the assigned readings for each class meeting BEFORE that class meeting. Participation (35%): Class meetings will provide you with an opportunity to interact with your fellow students, ask questions, and express your opinions. Consequently, you are required to attend, and to participate actively in, all class meetings. You are also expected to read, and be prepared to discuss, all assigned readings. Discussion Questions (10%): By 12 PM before each class meeting, you will be expected to have uploaded one question relating to the article(s) to be discussed during class. The question—which we may consider as a group, time permitting—does not need to be long. However, it should: o be well written (i.e., free of grammatical errors, typos, etc.); o demonstrate that you have completed, and thought about, the reading(s) assigned for that day; and o not simply reiterate a question posed by another student. Article Evaluations (15%): Students will use the template provided to complete article evaluations of one reading per week. Article evaluations require students to concisely 2 • • • summarize the key aspects of the case study readings including research question, methods, results, and the broader applications of the described research. Prep Guide (10%): Each student will be asked to complete one prep guide on a course reading. I have posted a list of the readings on Canvas, and each student must sign up to complete prep guides for one reading of their choice. Be sure to sign up sooner rather than later, since only one student may sign up for each reading. The prep guide will comprise a summary of the reading including (1) the central thesis of the piece (the main argument), (2) a brief overview of the archaeological culture or theme presented, (3) and information given about the animal(s) discussed, (4) the evidence discussed, (5) the author’s conclusions, and (6) how this piece relates to what we have discussed in class previously or are covering in other readings that day. You will also need to include at least three thought-provoking discussion questions about the reading. Prep guides must be at least three pages long, size 12 font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. These must be posted on the Canvas prep guide discussion board by 12 PM the day before class so that other students may review the prep guide and questions and be prepared for discussion the next day. Make sure to make a note of the reading that you have chosen for prep guides, so you do not forget to complete it; I do not accept late prep guides. Literature Reviews (30%): Students will do two literature reviews, one due midsemester, and one due at the end of the semester. Your assignment is to review past archaeological research related to this particular animal or archaeological culture in human-animal studies, evaluate this research critically, and suggest possible new directions of research given the different themes and ideas we discuss in class. For each, students will pick a specific animal taxon (genus or species) and write a brief paper about this animal of at least four pages. There should be a discussion about the animal’s ecology (environment, feeding habits, predators, etc.) and ethology (behavior) using at least one appropriate source (e.g., scholarly paper, documentary). There should also be a brief introduction to the archaeological context being discussed. The majority of the paper should focus on human-animal interactions with this particular taxon – either a more indepth look at one particular archaeological context (using at least three scholarly sources on the topic), or comparing two different cultural interactions with this species (comparing at least three scholarly, archaeological sources). You should discuss your taxon choice or archaeological culture with me, and I will be able to provide scholarly resources on the animal, though you are also welcome to search for additional resources. Grading: A 93-100% C 73-76% A90-92% C70-72% B+ 87-89% D+ 67-69% B 83-86% D 63-66% B80-82% D60-62% C+ 77-79% F 0-59% o I reserve the right to lower one or more of these grade thresholds. Under no circumstance will I raise any of the thresholds. Grades will be posted on Canvas as soon as they are available. 3 o Cheating will not be tolerated. 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For more information, email readingstudy@uwosh.edu, view the website (uwosh.edu/readingstudycenter), visit them in Nursing Ed Room 201, or call 920-424-1031. 6 • Dean of Students Office: The Dean of Students Office (DOS) helps students in navigating the university, particularly during difficult situations, such as personal, financial, medical, and/or family crises. DOS assists students with Out of Class Letters to faculty, Late Withdrawals/Drop for personal or medical issues, advocacy, and coordinates care for students through the Student Care Team. Please visit http://www.uwosh.edu/deanofstudents for more information. Readings: Alaica, Aleksa K. 2018 Partial and complete deposits and depictions: Social zooarchaeology, iconography and the role of animals in Late Moche Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20:864–872. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.02.002. Argent, Gala 2010 Do the Clothes Make the Horse? Relationality, Roles and Statuses in Iron Age Inner Asia. 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Additional Human-Animal Resources: Journals • Anthropozoologica • Anthrozoös • Humanimalia • Journal for Critical Animal Studies • Society and Animals Websites • Animals & Society Institute: https://www.animalsandsociety.org/ • ASI Defining Human-Animal Studies Videos: 10 • https://www.animalsandsociety.org/hu man-animal-studies/defining-humananimal-studies-an-asi-video-project/ H-Animal: https://networks.hnet.org/node/16560/h-animalresources • National Geographic Photo Ark: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/pr ojects/photo-ark/explore/ Class Schedule Week Date Assignments M 2/1 Introduction to the Course • Read syllabus W 2/3 Essential Concepts in Anthropology Archaeological Methods M 2/8 Methods continued W 2/10 Introduction to Zooarchaeology Social Zooarchaeology • Boyd (2017) Archaeology and Human-Animal Relations • Sykes (2014) Animals and People: Mirrors and Windows M 2/15 Anthropology & HumanAnimal Studies • Noske (1993) The Animal Question in Anthropology • Lawrence (1995) Cultural Perceptions of Differences Between People and Animals: A Key to Understanding Human-Animal Relationships 1 2 3 Topics W 2/17 • Lavenda & Schultz (2017) How do we know about the human past? • Mullin (2002) Animals and Anthropology • Renfrew & Bahn (2019) Ch. 7: What Did They Eat (pp. 277304) • Russell – Ch. 1: Beyond protein and calories, pp. 1-10. NO CLASS M 2/22 Animal Classification W 2/24 Domestication 4 • Marciniak (2011) Folk taxonomies and human-animal relations: The Early Neolithic in the Polish Lowlands • Serjeantson (2000) Good to eat and good to think with: classifying animals from complex sites • Russell – Ch. 6: Domestication as a human-animal relationship, pp. XX-XX • Armstrong Oma (2010) Between trust and domination: Social contracts between humans and animals • Clutton-Brock (2007) How domestic animals have shaped the development of human societies • Yacobaccio (2004) Social dimensions of camelid domestication in the southern Andes 11 M 3/1 Hunting W 3/3 Pets M 3/8 Dogs W 3/10 Use of Animals M 3/15 Animal Introductions W 3/17 Animal Extinctions 5 6 7 3/22 – 3/26 • Hu et al. (2014) Earliest evidence for commensal process of cat domestication • Irving-Pease et al. (2018) Rabbits and the specious Origins of Domestication • Russell – Ch. 4: Hunting and humanity, pp. 144-146, 155159, 168-175 • Oetelaar (2014) Better homes and pastures: Human agency and the construction of place in communal bison hunting on the Northern Plains • Sykes (2005) Hunting for the Anglo-Normans • Hughes (2007) Hunting in the Ancient Mediterranean World • Gotfredsen et al. (2018) Walrus history around the North Water • Russell – Ch. 7: Pets and other animal-human relationships, pp. 259-266 • Gray & Young (2011) Human-Pet Dynamics in CrossCultural Perspective • Tourigny (2020) Do all dogs go to heaven? Tracking human-animal relationships through the archaeological survey of pet cemeteries • Russell – Ch. 7: Pets and other animal-human relationships, pp. 279-296 • Morey (2006) Burying key evidence: the social bond between dogs and people • Ikram (2013) Man’s best friend for eternity: dog and human burials in ancient Egypt • Theodossopoulos (2005) Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island Community • Balme & O’Connor (2016) Dingoes and Aboriginal social organization in Holocene Australia • Seetah (2005) Butchery as a Tool for Understanding the Changing Views of Animals: Cattle in Roman Britain • Barsh et al. (2006) History, ethnography, and archaeology of the Coast Salish woolly-dog • Hofman & Rick (2017) Ancient Biological Invasions and Island Ecosystems: Tracking Translocations of Wild Plants and Animals • Kirch & Swift (2015) The Rat’s-Eye View: Tracing the Impacts of the Human-Introduced Pacific Rat (Rattus exulans) on Mangareva through Stable Isotope Analysis and Zooarchaeology • Greyson (2001) The Archaeological Record of Human Impacts on Animal Populations • Meltzer (2015) Pleistocene Overkill and North American Mammalian Extinctions • Bryden et al. (1999) Archaeological evidence for the extinction of a breeding population of elephant seals in Tasmania in prehistoric times SPRING BREAK 12 M 3/29 8 W 3/31 M 4/5 9 W 4/7 M 4/12 10 W 4/14 M 4/19 11 W 4/21 12 M 4/26 • First Literature Review due • Russell – Ch. 3: Animals in Ritual, pp. 64-69 • Argent (2010) Do the clothes make the horse? Relationality, Animals & Mortuary roles and statuses in Iron Age Inner Asia • Frie (2020) Parts and Wholes: The Role of Animals in the Practices Performance of Dolenjska Hallstatt Funerary Rites • Ikram (2005) The Loved Ones: Egyptian Animal Mummies as Cultural and Environmental Indicators • Morris (2017) Animal Biographies in the Iron Age of Wessex • Losey, et al. (2011) Canids as persons: Early Neolithic dog and wolf burials, Cis-Baikal, Siberia Animal Biographies • Tourigny, E. et al. (2015) An Osteobiography of a 19thCentury Dog from Toronto, Canada • Russell – Ch. 8: Animal wealth, pp. 297- 304, 308-317 • Schmitt & Lupo (2008) Do faunal remains reflect socioeconomic status? An ethnoarchaeological study Animal Wealth among Central African farmers • Orton (2010) Both subject and object: Herding, inalienability and sentient property in prehistory • Russell – Ch. 8: Animal wealth, pp. 320-324, 325, 327-331, 331-333. • Pohl (1994) The Economics and Politics of Maya Meat Animals & Status Eating • Çakirlar & Ikram (2016) ‘When elephants battle, the grass suffers.’ Power, ivory and the Syrian elephant • Pluskowski (2004) Narwhals or unicorns? Exotic animals as material culture in Medieval Europe • Sykes (2012) A social perspective on the introduction of Exotic Animals exotic animals: The case of the chicken • Van Neer et al. (2015) Traumatism in the Wild Animals Kept and Offered at Predynastic Hierakonpolis • Lindstrøm (2010) The animals of the arena: How could their destruction and death be endured and enjoyed? • Hu et al. (2020) From pack animals to polo: donkeys from the ninth-century Tang tomb of an elite lady in Xi-an Animals for Entertainment • Çakilar & Berthon (2014) Caravans, Camel Wrestling and Cowrie Shells: Towards a Social Zooarchaeology of Camel Hybridization in Anatolia and Adjacent Regions • Hill (2014) Imagining Animals in Prehistoric Religion • Russell – Ch. 3: Animals in Ritual, pp. 52-58, 79-80, 85-87 Animals in Ritual & Religion • Serjeantson & Morris (2011) Ravens and Crows in Iron Age and Roman Britain • Russell – Ch. 3: Animals in Ritual, pp. 127-143 • Frie (2018) Insignia of Power: Bird images on artefacts on Animals in Ritual & Religion artefacts of hierarchy and ritual in Iron Age Europe • Russell (2019) Spirit Birds at Neolithic Çatalhöyük • Russell – Ch. 3: Animals in Ritual, pp. 88-91, 125-127 • Insoll (2010) Talensi animal sacrifice and its archaeological implications Animal Sacrifice • Goepfert et al. (2020) Herds for the Gods? Selection Criteria and Herd Management at the Mass Sacrifice Site Huanchaquito-Las Llamas During the Chimú Period 13 • Yuan & Flad (2005) New zooarchaeological evidence for changes in Shang Dynasty animal sacrifice W 4/28 Animals as Symbols M 5/3 Animals & Ontology W 5/5 Animals & Ontology 13 14 • Russell – Ch. 2: Animal Symbols, pp. 11-14, 21-26, 28-30, 44-45, 50-51 • Paisley & Saunders (2010) A god forsaken: the sacred bear in Andean iconography and cosmology • Alaica (2018) Partial and complete deposits and depictions: Social zooarchaeology, iconography and the role of animals in Late Moche Peru • Hill, Erica (2013) Archaeology and Animal Persons: Towards a Prehistory of Human-Animal Relations • Oetelaar (2014) Worldviews and human-animal relations: Critical perspectives on bison-human relations among the Euro-Canadians and Blackfoot • Conneller (2004) Becoming Deer. Corporeal Transformations at Star Carr • Betts (2012) Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula M 5/10 NO CLASS W 5/12 SECOND LITERATURE REVIEW DUE F 5/14 NO CLASS* *unless illness, catastrophe, etc. mean we need to make-up a day 14